Gigabyte P55 Features

Ultra Durable 3Gigabyte Ultra Durable 3 series motherboards once again lead the motherboard industry for the highest quality and most innovative motherboard design. Featuring the industry's first consumer desktop motherboard design to introduce 2 ounces of copper for both the Power and Ground layers, Gigabyte Ultra Durable 3 motherboards deliver dramatically lower system temperature, improved energy efficiency and enhanced stability for overclocking.

Gigabyte Ultra Durable 3 motherboards also feature Japanese Solid Capacitors boasting 50,000 hours of operation, Ferrite core chokes with higher energy efficiency compared to the commonly used iron core chokes and Lower RDS(on) MOSFETs that features a lower resistance, which reduces power consumption and heat generation. The Gigabyte Ultra Durable 3 series motherboards promises to provide the stability, reliability and longevity essential to meet the power needs of high-end processors and other components running today's most demanding applications and games.

Smart6 - A Smarter Way for PC System Management
Gigabyte Smart 6 is designed with user-friendliness in mind, offering a combination of 6 innovative software utilities that provides an easier and smarter way for managing your system. Smart 6 allows you to speed up your system performance, boot-up time, managing a secured platform or recovers your system easily with a click of mouse button.

Smart QuickBoot
Smart QuickBoot speeds up the system boot-up process and shortens the waiting time for entering the operating system, delivering greater efficiency for daily use.

Smart Recovery
Smart Recovery allows users to easily roll-back system settings to a previous known working status. Users can simple select the day, week or month without prior setup of a backup time flag.

Smart DualBIOS
Smart DualBIOS not only allows double protection for the motherboard with two physical BIOS ROMs, it also includes a new feature that can record important dates and passwords

Smart Recorder
Smart recorder monitors and records system activities such as the time when the PC was turned on/off or even when large files were copied.

Smart TimeLock
Smart TimeLock allows parents to schedule time limits for their children to use the PC. It makes the rules simple by being able to select different usage times for weekdays and weekends.

EasyTune 6Gigabyte's EasyTune 6 is a simple and easy-to-use interface that allows users to fine-tune their system settings or do overclock/overvoltage in Windows environment. The user-friendly EasyTune 6 interface also includes tabbed pages for CPU and memory information, letting users read their system-related information without the need to install additional software.

Dynamic Energy Saver 2
Gigabyte Dynamic Energy Saver 2 incorporates a host of intelligent features that use a proprietary hardware and software design to considerably enhance PC system energy efficiency, reduce power consumption and deliver optimized auto phase-switching for the CPU, Memory, Chipset, VGA, HDD and system fans. With a simple click of a button, Gigabyte Dynamic Energy Saver 2 provides exceptional power savings and the most appropriate power usage without sacrificing performance.

Auto Green* - Automatic Power Savings
Auto Green provides system energy savings by enabling users to turn on and off their PC remotely using their Bluetooth enabled mobile phone. Once your phone is paired with your system, you only need to step away from your PC, and it will automatically enter S3/S4 ultra low power state, giving you an added level of power savings.

*Gigabyte motherboards featuring Smart TPM and Auto Green functions do not include a Bluetooth receiver; the addition of a 3rd party Bluetooth receiver is required.

Precision OV - Providing More Precise System Voltage Control
Gigabyte Hardware Overvoltage Control ICs featuring more voltage control options than before for the CPU North Bridge and memory. The overvoltage controllers also provide hardware linear real-time voltage control, which means there is no delay compared to the GPIO controller in past implementations. In addition, Gigabyte's Hardware Overvoltage Controller ICs also allow for much finer voltage control, allowing power users to adjust voltage in as little increments as 20mV for better overclocking performance.

Multi graphics ATI CrossFireX and NVIDIA SLI support
Wanting to make sure gamers felt some multi-GPU love on the P55 platform, Gigabyte has equipped their entire P55 series with support for both ATI CrossFireX and NVIDIA SLI multi-graphics support, delivering the ultimate in graphics performance for gaming enthusiasts who demand the highest frame rates without compromising on resolution.

Dolby Home Theater
In addition, Gigabyte has also included the powerful Dolby Home Theater suite of audio technologies, which deliver a vivid surround sound listening experience for music, movies, and games, using two to eight speakers or any set of headphones. Designed to automatically deliver the best possible listening experience, Dolby Home Theater includes Dolby Pro Logic IIx for maximum surround sound expansion, Dolby Headphone and Sound Space Expander for a virtualized audio experience, and Natural Bass enhancement for the richest quality sound.